Pierre Ploton

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

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Pierre Ploton is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierre Ploton has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Pierre Ploton's work include Forest ecology and management (15 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (15 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers). Pierre Ploton is often cited by papers focused on Forest ecology and management (15 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (15 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers). Pierre Ploton collaborates with scholars based in France, Cameroon and Belgium. Pierre Ploton's co-authors include Nicolas Barbier, Raphaël Pélissier, Nicolas Picard, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Gaëlle Viennois, Vivien Rossi, Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury, Frédéric Mortier, Carsten F. Dormann and Alexei Lyapustin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Pierre Ploton

22 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

2020 371 citations Pierre Ploton, Frédéric Mortier et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Pierre Ploton	626	585	416	392	106	24	1.1k
Carlos A. López‐Sánchez	615 1.0×	561 1.0×	450 1.1×	474 1.2×	114 1.1×	68	1.2k
M. O. Hunter	589 0.9×	726 1.2×	370 0.9×	521 1.3×	132 1.2×	11	1.0k
Grégoire Vincent	692 1.1×	653 1.1×	591 1.4×	643 1.6×	160 1.5×	66	1.5k
Eric Bastos Görgens	629 1.0×	719 1.2×	396 1.0×	400 1.0×	223 2.1×	64	1.1k
Y.A. Hussin	774 1.2×	882 1.5×	519 1.2×	546 1.4×	162 1.5×	74	1.4k
Simon Murphy	674 1.1×	647 1.1×	383 0.9×	282 0.7×	204 1.9×	14	990
Sébastien Bauwens	506 0.8×	683 1.2×	234 0.6×	276 0.7×	220 2.1×	19	915
Jeff W. Atkins	689 1.1×	381 0.7×	593 1.4×	398 1.0×	198 1.9×	60	1.1k
Alexander Christian Vibrans	689 1.1×	203 0.3×	468 1.1×	251 0.6×	58 0.5×	91	1.2k
David L.R. Affleck	745 1.2×	349 0.6×	951 2.3×	348 0.9×	137 1.3×	51	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierre Ploton

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Barbier, Nicolas, Pierre Ploton, Gaëlle Viennois, et al.. (2025). Monitoring tropical forests with light drones: ensuring spatial and temporal consistency in stereophotogrammetric products. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19. 100114–100114.

Muledi, Jonathan Ilunga, Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Pierre Ploton, et al.. (2025). Allometric Equations for Aboveground Biomass Estimation in Wet Miombo Forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Using Terrestrial LiDAR. Environments. 12(8). 260–260.

Ploton, Pierre, Moses B. Libalah, Gilles Dauby, et al.. (2024). Interactions between soil and other environmental variables modulate forest expansion and ecotone dynamics in humid savannas of Central Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 20241120–20241120. 1 indexed citations

Barbier, Nicolas, Guillaume Cornu, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2024). Combining satellite and field data reveals Congo's forest types structure, functioning and composition. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 11(2). 200–220. 1 indexed citations

Demol, Miro, Hans Verbeeck, Bert Gielen, et al.. (2022). Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(8). 1628–1639. 72 indexed citations

Ploton, Pierre, et al.. (2022). Assessing the Predictive Power of Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Spaceborne Biomass Map over Independent Test Samples. Remote Sensing. 14(16). 4126–4126. 5 indexed citations

Picard, Nicolas, Frédéric Mortier, Pierre Ploton, et al.. (2021). Using Model Analysis to Unveil Hidden Patterns in Tropical Forest Structures. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 4 indexed citations

Martin‐Ducup, Olivier, Gislain II Mofack, Di Wang, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of automated pipelines for tree and plot metric estimation from TLS data in tropical forest areas. Annals of Botany. 128(6). 753–766. 33 indexed citations

Bauwens, Sébastien, Pierre Ploton, Adeline Fayolle, et al.. (2021). A 3D approach to model the taper of irregular tree stems: making plots biomass estimates comparable in tropical forests. Ecological Applications. 31(8). e02451–e02451. 7 indexed citations

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Ploton, Pierre, Frédéric Mortier, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, et al.. (2020). Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4540–4540. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Libalah, Moses B., Vincent Droissart, Bonaventure Sonké, et al.. (2020). Additive influences of soil and climate gradients drive tree community composition of Central African rain forests. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31(6). 1154–1167. 5 indexed citations

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Tripathi, Nitin Kumar, Wirong Chanthorn, Warren Y. Brockelman, et al.. (2020). Forest aboveground biomass stock and resilience in a tropical landscape of Thailand. Biogeosciences. 17(1). 121–134. 27 indexed citations

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Ploton, Pierre, et al.. (2020). Airborne Lidar Sampling Pivotal for Accurate Regional AGB Predictions from Multispectral Images in Forest-Savanna Landscapes. Remote Sensing. 12(10). 1637–1637. 8 indexed citations

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Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2019). Upscaling Forest Biomass from Field to Satellite Measurements: Sources of Errors and Ways to Reduce Them. Surveys in Geophysics. 40(4). 881–911. 88 indexed citations

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Libalah, Moses B., Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Pierre Ploton, et al.. (2019). Allometric Models to Estimate Leaf Area for Tropical African Broadleaved Forests. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(15). 8985–8994. 6 indexed citations

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Takoudjou, Stéphane Momo, Pierre Ploton, Bonaventure Sonké, et al.. (2017). Using terrestrial laser scanning data to estimate large tropical trees biomass and calibrate allometric models: A comparison with traditional destructive approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(4). 905–916. 123 indexed citations

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Djomo, Adrien N., Nicolas Picard, Adeline Fayolle, et al.. (2016). Tree allometry for estimation of carbon stocks in African tropical forests. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 89(4). 446–455. 57 indexed citations

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Blanchard, Élodie, Philippe Birnbaum, Thomas Ibanez, et al.. (2016). Contrasted allometries between stem diameter, crown area, and tree height in five tropical biogeographic areas. Trees. 30(6). 1953–1968. 58 indexed citations

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Picard, Nicolas, Ervan Rutishauser, Pierre Ploton, Alfred Ngomanda, & Matieu Henry. (2015). Should tree biomass allometry be restricted to power models?. Forest Ecology and Management. 353. 156–163. 104 indexed citations

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Ploton, Pierre, et al.. (2011). Assessing aboveground tropical forest biomass using Google Earth canopy images. Ecological Applications. 22(3). 993–1003. 81 indexed citations

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